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While Congress has been out of town, the Internet community has been fighting back against legislation that would tinker with the workings of the greatest communications network ever. The bill is intended to control copyright, which is indeed commonpla...

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Time’s Techland blogger Jerry Brito links to WashingtonWatch.com in his story about the recent SOPA/PIPA revolution: “Why We Won’t See Many Protests like the SOPA Blackout.” The bill that caught his eye? The Interagency Personnel Rota....

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LT1

Perhaps Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, can post a blog article here as to what the true meanings of this bill are concerning civil liberties as described by the Cato institute?

Patriots

Yesterday and today, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has hunkered down in the Capitol for markup sessions of SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. The basic facts looked bleak: this Internet blacklist bill is a disaster that stands at odds with the Constitution, but the deep pockets of its legacy media backers managed to make it enough friends in committee that its quick passage seemed possible. Judiciary Committee Chairman, author of the bill, and “Hollywood’s Favorite Republican” Lamar Smith scheduled just a single hearing, stacked the deck in his bill’s favor, and rushed it through to markup now, at the end of the legislative session.

Bennette

REALLY - we already have a court system in place to handle copyright violations, this legislation would just make it easier and less costly for companies to protect their products without inventing their own methods for doing so. Our government should STAY OUT of this problem and leave it in the courts as it always has been so that each SUSPECTED violation is addressed individually. To do otherwise is to ask for extreme abuse and an even high incidence of censorship! LEAVE WHAT FEW TRUE FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS WE HAVE LEFT, ALONE!

CalifGirl

Following a day of unprecedented online protest, the web censorship bills in Congress, SOPA and PIPA, have officially been tabled. “In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the PROTECT I.P. Act (PIPA)," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced this morning.